[Deepblue]

Can’t tell you how we got our hands on this image, but what you’re looking at is a real live shot of the Xbox 360 that someone sneakily snapped with their cameraphone at Microsoft’s Xbox360 Revealed launch party in Los Angeles last night. Also note the presence of a hard drive attachment up top, the white controller, the Xbox Live headset, and what looks like that EyeToy-like camera peripheral we’ve been hearing about.

From Engadget.

My take:
+ Wireless controllers: check
+ Web cam: check
+ Not to shabby looking, the other pic was real, but it was a VERY uglifying shot...
- AGH!!! I want chrome, not white foo's!

[Rictor]

For all the money they had, I would have thought they could come up wth something better looking than that. Hell, a first year college design student could do better.

Or maybe it's just me.

[Gai Daigoji]

Thats just....ugly.

[Fineus]

It seems to me like that looked at Apples iPod and tried to make an designer icon out of their console to follow suit.

That said, it's not that bad... certainly an improvement over the first X Box. I will say one thing though, that controller looks even bigger than the first one... certainly wide.

I think it'd look quite snazzy sitting by a TV set though. They could've done better but then they could've done a lot worse!

[kode]

it's not that good looking.

[Deepblue]

Engadget also got a shot of the new dvd/media remote.

Microsoft must have been dreaming if they thought they could hold a launch party for the Xbox 360 last night and somehow stop us from getting our hands on photos of every last piece of hardware that was there. We already scored a live shot of the console, along with its controller, now courtesy of another attendee we now know what the Xbox 360’s DVD player/Media Center remote control is going to look like.

I'm betting it ships with the 360...

WOO! Remote power button!!! No more getting up to turn off the machine!!!

[kode]

yeah, I've heard that mod is the most common one on the xbox...

[Deepblue]

Originally posted by kode
it's not that good looking.

It would look MUCH better in chrome...

However, it is supposed to be able to take music from USB sources, so it may really compliment your iPod...

Plus it is supposed to have custom cases you can get.

[Fineus]

Heck, all that white space... I imagine it won't be long before people go to town with spray paints on it

[Deepblue]

Hehe...

Latest challenge reward from ourcolony.net seems to suggest that it will have interchangable power button plates...

[kode]

oh, that's just what I've always wanted.

[Deepblue]

Hmmm, apparently it actually is brushed metal and that picture it just pretty crappy at showing it...

[Deepblue]

One more pro:

Looks to be pretty small, using the cd tray as a reference.

[WeatherOp]

 That is the uglyest game console I've ever seen! The old Atari looks better than that.

[aldo_14]

Looks like a Mac G5 (?) case.  Which, oddly enough, so did the devkits (except they were in G5 cases....).

Doesn't strike me as visually appealing.  Of course, the PS2 is/was ugly as sin, and absolutely dominated the market, so it's not going to be a major concern for most IMO.

i am, however, struggling to think of a succesful white consumer electronics 'living room' (i.e. not iPods, Gameboys, etc) product.....

[Deepblue]

I hope to dear god that it really is chrome...

And yes, the PS2 looks like a mini apartment complex...

Heh, Gamespot already has sites devoted to both the PS3 and "X360..."

[Taristin]

I'm not impressed.

[Dark RevenantX]

oh my f***ing god that is ugly!  That looks worse than a smashed PS2!

[Kie99]

The controller looks ugly as hell, the console and controllers should either be black with a hint of green or Just Chrome.    As DeepBlue pointed out they're either using massive CDs or have a small conole.

[Rictor]

Just for contrast, here's the new PS2 they're planning to release in a few weeks.